Identity Verification in a Snap
Ensure a secure and effortless customer experience with Regula identity verification SDK. It is designed to make the ID verification process simple, quick, and fraud-free, no matter the ID.
Identity Verification That Secures Your Business
Instant customer onboarding
- Mere seconds for document verification and customer onboarding
- Personalized the customer journey any platform: mobile, web, or passport readers
- High scalability: no gaps due to volume spikes, no matter the volume of the identity documents
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Fraud-free identity verification
- NFC and complete server-side verification of e-docs for zero-trust-to-mobile cases
- Document liveness detection via hologram, screenshot, and electronic device check
- Automatic Authenticity Control (AAC) of documents with a combination of comprehensive checks
Extensive Database of Identity Documents
- 14,000+ document templates covering 251 countries and territories are supported
- 138+ languages and scripts, including Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, and more
- Full compliance with ICAO 9303, ISO 18013, BSI TR-03105 Part 5.1, 5.2
Cross-platform Support
- Mobile, web, desktop, server, and passport reader devices support
- iOS/Android/сross-platform frameworks for mobile components
- Ready-to-run Linux/Windows/Docker packages for service distribution
- Comprehensive documentation available
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Verify Any ID with Regula
Regula Document Reader SDK is designed for identity verification services that specialize in reading and digital verification of passports, ID cards, driver's licenses, visas, and other ID documents.
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Technologies that Empower Regula SDKs
Customer Success
Better Service, Better Business
Customer onboarding
Allow customers to enjoy fast and secure ID verification during onboarding and access your products and services in seconds.
Read moreKYC
Make KYC work for everyone - customize identity verification for your website or app and secure your customers’ data along the way.
Read moreAge verification
Comply with legal age limits and prevent illegal activities among minors - efficiently, quickly, and reliably.
Read moreCheck-In automation
Speed up the check-in process by automating data entry and ID verification to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Read moreFraud prevention
Detect and mitigate fraud with AI-powered identity verification checks - ID type, validity, and authenticity for the safety of everyone involved.
Read moreData entry automation
Increase accuracy of ID verification and reduce manual labor costs with a swift, highly precise, and secure data entry workflow.
Read moreRegula Hits Every Step of Identity Proofing
Identity Document Verification
Biometric Verification
Authentication of Identity Documents
Document capture
Get an ideal image with advanced document capture capabilities. Regula Document Reader SDK technology improves ID verification results with image preprocessing techniques no matter how IDs are captured: with mobile devices, web cameras, or passport readers.
Image quality assessment
Avoid image deficiencies in both mobile and web. Regula Document Reader SDK automatically preprocesses document images, applying quality assessment techniques to streamline document authentication and verification results.
MRZ reading
Find, read, and verify machine-readable zones (MRZs) in various IDs. Regula MRZ reading technology automatically reads the MRZ lines, dividing them into separate fields, and validates MRZs with all the data they contain in accordance with ICAO 9303 and ISO 18013 standards.
Read moreAutomatic document type detection
Automatically recognize the type of the identity document and country of origin in a matter of seconds with no manual labor such as selecting a country, document type or series.
Read moreNFC-based document verification
Ensure the integrity and authenticity of electronic documents - e-Passports, e-IDs, and e-DLs - with NFC technology for ID verification. Perform an extra check with complete server-side verification of RFID chips where the session is re-verified on a server for both chip and data authenticity.
Read moreAccurate visual zone verification
Regula visual zone OCR technology instantly analyzes the ID layout in accordance with Regula’s extensive document template database and reads all the typed, printed, or embossed data. Once the analysis is complete, the data is ready for cross-validation with other sources of information, like MRZ or barcode.
Document liveness
Leave no chance for unauthorized access by checking the presence of a physical ID. Regula document liveness detection technology verifies the presence of dynamic security elements in the document, such as holograms, and performs screenshot and electronic device check.
Barcode reading
Automatically read and verify the data encoded in barcodes for the biggest possible variety of barcodes in the world. To ensure the integrity of the document, the Regula solution compares the ID data for consistency across various security elements: MRZ, barcode, visual zone, and electronic chip.
Read moreAuthenticity control
Prove the document is authentic with Automatic Authenticity Control, which instantly detects and authenticates data from the visual zone, MRZ, and barcodes, checks security features, and parses data in text fields. Moreover, it automatically verifies the presence of IPI and detects various techniques of replacing the photo in the original document.
Read moreMultispectral authentication
Automatically check a document in high resolution. Regula passport readers and forensic devices capture document images in different light sources (like infrared, ultraviolet, anti-Stokes, etc.) to authenticate as many security elements as possible and prove that the identity document is authentic.
Face SDK integration
Compare personal images and data and match them with a photo from the document, RFID chip, a selfie from a web or mobile camera, or an external portrait from your database, making sure that the user is not on a watchlist.
Regula NFC TestKit Service
For Enterprise customers, we offer the Regula NFC TestKit Service: a customer-centric service that provides a customized set of test documents with NFC chips, specifically designed for testing remote onboarding scenarios with biometric passports. The test document set efficiently substitutes real documents to thoroughly check and debug the deployment of the onboarding process, ensuring the readiness of the IDV solution to process genuine biometric passports
Technologies that Empower Regula SDKs
Document capture and image quality assessment
- Get an ideal image with advanced document capture capabilities and automatically preprocess the document image.
Automatic document type identification
- Automatically identify the document type and country of origin in order to perform the necessary checks. Backed with the largest document template database in the world - 14,000+ documents from 251 countries and territories.
Visual zone verification (OCR)
- Process the Visual Inspection Zone (VIZ) of an ID document, which comprises the mandatory and optional data elements designed for visual inspection.
MRZ reading and verification
- To process and parse the data in the Machine Readable Zone.
- Support of ICAO 9303 (passports, visas, ID cards) and ISO 18013 (driver's licenses) standards, as well as non-standard MRZ formats.
- Support of AAMVA, the North American standard for driver’s licenses and ID cards.
Barcode reading and verification
- Processes and parses 1D and 2D (PDF417, QR, Aztec, etc.) barcodes into text and graphic fields.
NFC-based verification of electronic documents with RFID chip*
- Reads and verifies e-Passports, e-IDs, and e-DLs via NFC-enabled smartphones.
- Performs Passive Authentication (PA), Active Authentication (AA), Chip Authentication (CA), and Terminal Authentication (TA) depending on the chip.
Lexical analysis
- Enables analysis of the obtained information, transliterates to Latin where applicable, and converts data to a standardized format. The technology immediately detects if there is a Zero (0) passport number or stop-words like SPECIMEN, MUSTERMAN, etc.
Validation of dates for correctness
- Checks expiry date, validity, format, age, DOI vs. DOE relation, etc.
Cross-validation of extracted data
- Checks across MRZ vs. visual inspection zone (via OCR) vs. barcode vs. RFID chip.
Data presence check in the mandatory fields on the data page
- Automatically verifies if there is data in the required data fields.
Detection of deprecated blanks
- Automatically detects whether the document type is still valid or is already deprecated.
Verification of country codes
- Checks country codes for existence and correctness.
Processing of graphic fields
- Captures, crops and displays graphic fields in the document (signature, barcode, portrait, etc.) as separate images.
Hologram check*
- Detects hologram and authenticates its validity.
Black and white copy detection
- Determines if a document is being presented as a copy (soft or hard).
Screenshot check
- Checks if the document is being presented as a screenshot (moiré effect) or from a digital device.
Validation of textual data
- Checks the format, presence, etc. of existing textual data in accordance with document type.
Barcode format check
- Verifies barcode presense/absense, type, format, code metadata, data format, content format, and physical size (width and height in mm).
Document pattern check
- Checks the presence/absence of pattern (e.g. position, shape, color) for documents that have this security feature.
Document number format check
- Validates document number format and correctness in line with identity document type and issuing authority.
Personal number check
- Reads and validates personal numbers—format, check digit, etc.—according to the rules specified by the issuing country.
IPI presence check
- Validates Invisible Personal Information (IPI) and detects the presence of IPI in the image in a specific area: the portrait.
LASINK™ photo printing check
- Validates whether the portrait in the document is printed with LASINK™ technology in accordance with the document template.
Portrait comparison**
- Compares the portrait across main, secondary, ghost, and kinegram variants.
Server-side verification for electronic documents with NFC technology
- Performs an extra check of the RFID chip, where the session is re-verified on a server for both chip and data authenticity, including PA, AA, and CA checks. Enables further re-verification of the RFID processing session to validate the chip and its data authenticity and validity on the server.
Identity Documents Supported
Currently our database contains more than 14,000 types of documents from 251 countries and territories of the world. Here are the most common ones.
Border Crossing Card, Business Travel Card, Citizenship Card, Crew member certificate, Diplomatic Id Card, Driving License, ePassport, Health Insurance Card, ID Card, Immigration Card, Insurance Board Card, Laissez-Passer, Lawyer Card, Marine License, Medicare Card, Passport, Personal Card, Police Card, Proof of Age Card, Refugee Card, Registration Certificate, Residence permit, Social Security Card, Visa, Voter Card, Work Permit, and others.
In order to see the full list of the documents and countries, please follow the link.
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